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- Tags: Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 4, 1942
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 4th 1942
Darling Yve;
How do you feel now that I not[sic] around any more. [A]re you staying home every night or going out[?]. Excuse the writing because I am laying down and writing on a book. This morning I was…
Tags: Love, Military life, Sand Storm
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 7, 1942
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 7, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am having normal time wish you were here. I wrote my mother and I told her I would call her up [S]aturday night if I would be able to see her [S]unday and I told her to bring you, I am…
Tags: Love
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 15, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 15, 1942
Darling Yve,
I only got one letter from you in 15 days in the army. [S]o I[‘d] like to hear from you again. [T]he letter you did send me I keep reading it over and over again. [Y]ou don’t know I good I feel when I…
Tags: Love, Organ lessons
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 16, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 16, 1942
Darling Yve,
I just got your letter and I feel much better. Well to start off with I [sic] tell you what I did to-day [sic]. We got up at 5:45 and ate chow then they told us we were going out on a drill field…
Tags: Doctor, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 18, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 18, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am glad to hear from you. I got three letters from you to-day [sic]. Well to begin with we changed clothes to-day [sic] and put on our sun tan out fits [sic] they are pretty nice. I was going to…
Tags: Girls, Love, Military life, Military training
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 24, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 24, 1942
My Darling Yve,
I love you very much and I hope you feel the same. Your letters are coming to me faster than I though[t] they would. [S]ome days I’ve got two or three in fact I get them so fast I don’t know where…
Tags: Bad habits, Gambling, Love, Military life, smoking
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 25, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
May 25, 1942
Dear Yve,
I just got your box of candy and it was swell. I couldn’t be better. It was so thoughtful of you to send if. I knew you wouldn’t forget me. Well here I am just got an injection and my arm is a little…
Tags: Hike, Love, Military life
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 17, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 17, 1942
Darling Yve,
I have been so darn busy I haven’t been able to write. I been on the go all the time. I’m sorry if you think that I don’t want to write but some times [sic] it impossible. In your letter you think I…
Tags: Blackout, Love, Military life, Passing out
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 5, 1942
Darling Yve,
I love you and this is going to be a short letter. I think your [sic] wonderful. I love those blue eyes and the dimple when you brush your teeth. I love the way you comb your hair. I love you the way…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
July 8, 1942
Yve Darling
I just got your letter telling me how lonely you are, well I feel the same way about you. I love you so much it hurts. At night just before I go to bed I got a lot of time to think and I think of all…
Tags: Love, Military life, Truck
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Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910